"Xorg 7", is it a worthwhile upgrade???

Southpaw76 · 08-25-2006, 08:01 PM

Although it will eventually be sitting there staring back at you no matter what distro you use, I just thought that I would get some opinions on the latest branch of X. Myself, I'm still using Xorg-6.9 on FreeBSD-6.1 and Slackware-Current. I am considering making the change and I would like to hear from users who are already using it; the pro's, the con's, advantages, disadvantages, etc...

timothyb89 · 08-26-2006, 12:56 AM

Hmm...
I may or may not be using it. If there's a way to check, that'd be nice to know.
The fact that I updated my system my my video card suddenly became supported. If that's what I've got, I like it.

cs-cam · 08-27-2006, 08:52 AM

Feature-wise there is nothing different between Xorg 6.9 and 7.0. v6.9 was the last monolitic package released whereas v7.0 is just v6,9 but seperated into a trillion smaller packages.

If you see something you like, upgrade to Xorg 7.1 but if you have 6.9 running fine don't move to 7.0, you won't notice a difference

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If there's a way to check, that'd be nice to know.

X -version